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CompareMyDocs Helps You Compare Document Revisions

8:30AM Whitson Gordon | Free web service CompareMyDocs is an easy-to-use tool that compares up to seven revisions of a Word document or rich text file to help you put together a final draft based on revisions you choose. More »
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Best Tools For Reading And Creating PDFs

12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More »
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OnlineOCR Converts Your Scanned Documents To Editable Text

12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | A page of printed notes from an instructor, an old proposal you want to edit, a letter your boss wants turned into a template, OnlineOCR can help take an image of text and turn it into an editable copy. More »
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Google Adds Shared Folders To Docs

10:45AM Adam Pash | Good news for people using Google Docs to share or collaborate on documents: Google today has added folder sharing and multiple document uploading to its popular suite of web-based document and spreadsheet apps. More »
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Google Docs Viewer Bookmarklet Makes PDFs Less Freeze-y

10:40PM Kevin Purdy | Clicking a PDF and waiting, waiting, waiting for it to load, or possibly crash your browser, is an inescapable web annoyance of bad-stand-up-comedy proportions. Unless you convert all of a page’s PDF links to open with Google Doc’s streamlined viewer. More »
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STDU Viewer Is An Impressive Tabbed Document Reader

4:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free application STDU Viewer is an all-in-one tabbed reader for electronic documents, supporting everything from your standard PDF to the less common comic book archive (CBZ/CBR). It’s free, fairly lightweight and snappy. More »
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Drop Thumbnails Onto One Another To Combine PDFs In 10.6

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard, gave the Preview app some serious productivity powers, but at least one feature, PDF combining, works a bit differently in Snow Leopard (10.6). PC World explains the subtle but significant change. More »
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Use Google Docs To Convert Images To Text

9:40PM Kevin Purdy | It’s not an official feature (yet), but Google Docs can perform OCR image-to-text conversions on high-resolution files you upload to it. They have to be pretty darned clear and crisp, but it’s a nice freebie. More »
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Best Of The Best: Tools And Apps, Third Quarter 2009

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | The third quarter of 2009 was filled with all sorts of useful communication tools, time saving applications and software to help you get things done. Here’s a look back at the winners in each of the categories. More »
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Beat Your Filing Cabinet Into Shape With A Filing System Workflow

11:45PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Whether your filing system has gotten away from you or it was never really under control to begin with, you can use our handy guide to beat it back into shape. More »